Talk:Fred Thompson

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Wikipedia Copying

Almost all of the changes made in the last 2 major edits by User:AmeriCan [1][2] were taken almost verbatim from the Fred Thompson Wikipedia article.

I am going to revert those edits to the last clean version I can find. I will try to preserve as many of the changes as possible that occurred between these 2 edits. --Brian 11:02, 18 June 2007 (EDT)

• Thank you for catching this, and your help in restoring it, Brian! --Sysop-TK _/MyTalk 06:17, 19 June 2007 (EDT)

• Brian, you are out of your mind. The information I added primarily came from Thompson's own official biography on imwithfred.com, not Wikipedia. Yes, I added his first college and his parents names. That's not violating copyright, it's obviously encyclopedic info for a person's encyclopedia entry. OMG, what the heck is happening to Conservapedia! Has it been hijacked by the same nutjob crowd that runs Wikipedia. -- AmeriCan 11:52, 19 June 2007 (EDT)

If you don't believe me, just compare your Actor section with the Character Actor section from Wikipedia, the first 2 paragraphs of your Attorney section to the Wikipedia Attorney section, and the majority of your Post Senate additions with the Wikipedia After the Senate section.

There are many more examples that I could list, but I trust other editors/sysops can make a determination for themselves. As for your claim, these examples are not in his official biography at imwithfred.com, and even if they were, it would still be a copyright violation.--Brian 13:23, 19 June 2007 (EDT)